A few people have mentioned this (article via Blech). It really is a very, very good iPhone app -- aggregates your feeds from many services, displays them nicely in a diary, lets you export all the aggregated data. More than worth £1.19.

I usually don't mind changes to sites that get lots of users stupidly riled up but, a few nice details aside, the new Delicious 'Save' window does seem a step backward in several ways. And, ouch, that's a lot of unhappy users. (via Blech)

Charlie Stross on why we need more utopian visions of the future. Not being very up with science fiction, I've been wondering recently if there is some of this around. Maybe not, yet. (via Magical Nihilism)

Really good and clear description of why RIM could be in big trouble, despite currently good financial results. Ignoring the RIM/Blackberry specifics, well worth a read for general diffusion of innovation and R&D type stuff. (via Daring Fireball)

I increasingly find myself thinking that if the USA were a country that was mainly, say, Muslim, or full of dark-skinned, non-English-speaking people, the "West" would be deploring its behaviour, talking about sanctions, etc.

But! What? Grrr! May have to get a Witopia VPN again so I can watch the Daily Show online. What kind of media industry is this where I find myself paying $40/year to circumvent region protection in order to watch a TV show? (via @megpickard)

Yes, I've been thinking this self-hosting-with-syndication model is the way to go. I don't use Delicious's social features at all, but if I self-hosted my links I'd still like them to be viewable by others in my network, if they're interested. (via @preoccupations)

James Darling on good form. It's great that co-working offices like TechHub exist for people who want them, but TechHub's press releases are a bit overblown, like something from one of the previous booms.

It's staggering, as ever, to see how financially unequal the country is, but also fascinating to see how people don't realise it. I'm not sure I'd have responded much more accurately, and it's also probably similar in the UK. (via @ianbetteridge)

A good account of the inconsistencies of the Browne Report into the future of funding Britain's higher education. Sounds like it's written by people for whom education is simply a way of earning MOAR MONEY.

On the cuts. The bigger the cuts, the more it makes the economy seem in more trouble than it is, and this in turn makes the previous Labour government look more incompetent. Also, the Liberals as a friendly fig leaf hiding the Tories' extreme ideas. Fuckers.

Interesting look at why soldiers torture prisoners. Lays much of the blame at (a) the normalisation of torture as a technique in films/TV watched by troops and (b) the training soldiers go through that prepares them for being tortured themselves. (Subscribers only.)

Simple tip for improving tonal separation: "Pull up Unsharp Masking. Set the Amount for somewhere between 8 and 15% (depending on taste, subject, and printer). Set the Radius for around 60 pixels. Set the Threshold to 0."

Fascinating account of a War of the Roses battle from an excavated mass grave. I didn't know men of the time weren't much shorter than the average today (people shrank in the Victorian era). (via Kottke)

On the future of the newspaper industry. Many good nuggets, including: "New York Times, if it stopped printing a physical edition of the paper, could afford to give every subscriber a free Kindle. Not the bog-standard Kindle, but the one with free global data access. And not just one Kindle, but four Kindles. And not just once, but every year."